Gender, Race, and Nation Minor

Five courses totaling at least 15 credits, to be chosen from the following categories as stated:

1. Foundational Course. One course chosen from:
   • WGS 240 (WOMENSTD 240) / AMCULT 240: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
   • WGS 250 (WOMENSTD 250): Gender, Race, & Nation
2. Feminist Theory. One course chosen from:
   • WGS 330 (WOMENSTD 330): Feminist Thought
   • WGS 422 (WOMENSTD 422) / POLSCI 401: Feminist Political Theory
   • WGS 455 (WOMENSTD 455) / ANTHRCUL 455: Feminist Theory in Anthropology
3. Electives. Three electives (9 credits) that focus on women in specific racial and ethnic groups (At least two courses must be upper-level courses, with at least one at the 400-level), chosen from:
   • AMCULT 498: Capstone Seminar, section titled, "Skin Deep: Race and Beauty in American Culture" (Only if elected WN17 or later)
   • NURS 420: Introduction to Global Health: Issues and Challenges
   • WOMENSTD / ANTHRCUL / NURS 212: Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 
   • WGS 215 (WOMENSTD 215) / HISTART / ARCH 216: Contested Spaces: Art, Architecture, Politics (Only if elected FA20 or later)
   • WGS 220 (WOMENSTD 220) / NURS 220: Perspectives in Women's Health
   • WGS 222/ENGLISH 212: Narratives of Girlhood (Only if elected WN23 or later)
   • WGS 233 (WOMENSTD 233) / AMCULT 233: Genes and Society
   • WGS 235 (WOMENSTD 235) / AMCULT / ARABAM 235: Harems to Terrorists: Representing the Modern Middle East in Hollywood Cinema
   • WGS 239 (WOMENSTD 239) / AMCULT 239: Gender, Sexuality, and Health in America
   • WGS 242 (WOMENSTD 242) / AMCULT 242: Gender Violence in a Global Context 
   • WGS 243 (WOMENSTD 243) / AMCULT / LATINOAM 243: Latinas in the U.S.
   • WGS 258: Interdisciplinary Topics in WGS, section titled "Black Women in Popular Culture"
   • WGS 270 (WOMENSTD 270) / SOC 270: Gender and the Law
   • WGS 291 (WOMENSTD 291) / PSYCH 291: Introduction to Psychology of Women and Gender 
   • WGS 293 (WOMENSTD 293) / AMCULT 293: 20th-Century Writing by Women of Color
   • WGS 297 (WOMENSTD 297) / PSYCH 297: Promoting Equity and Inclusion in the University and the Workplace (Only if elected FA17 or later)
   • WGS 301 (WOMENSTD 301) / ASIAN 301: Writing Japanese Women
   • WGS 302 (WOMENSTD 302) / HISTART / ANTHRCUL 302: Sex and Gender in Japan
   • WGS 304 (WOMENSTD 304) / AAS 304: Gender and Immigration
   • WOMENSTD 305 / ALA 306: Interdisciplinary & Intersectional LGBTQ Health
   • WGS 306 (WOMENSTD 306) / AAS 306: Women of Color and Feminism
   • WGS 307 (WOMENSTD 307) / ANTHRCUL / RCSSCI 327: Critical Theory in Medicine and Healing
   • WGS 309 (WOMENSTD 309) / PSYCH 309: Psychology of Social Change: Gender and Global Feminisms (Only if elected WN19 or later)
   • WGS 312 (WOMENSTD 312): Queering US Immigration History
   • WGS 318 (WOMENSTD 318): Women, Politics, and Society in India
   • WGS 321 (WOMENSTD 321): Women's Lives in 20th-Century China
   • WGS 322 (WOMENSTD 322): Black Feminist Approaches to Health (Only if elected FA18 or later)
   • WGS 323 (WOMENSTD 323) / AAS 323 / HISTORY 388: Black Feminist Though and Practice
   • WGS 324 (WOMENSTD 324) / ANTHRCUL 325: Anthropology of Childbirth
   • WGS 327 (WOMENSTD 327) / HISTORY 327: History of Sexuality
   • WGS 328 (WOMENSTD 328) / AAS 328: Women, Agency, and Sexual Safety
   • WGS 329 (WOMENSTD 329) / AMCULT 329: Native American Feminism
   • WGS 332 (WOMENSTD 332) / ASIAN 342: Gender and Power in Southeast Asia 
   • WGS 335 (WOMENSTD 335): Gender and Globalization
   • WGS 336 (WOMENSTD 336) / AAS / HISTORY 336: Black Women in America
   • WGS 337 (WOMENSTD 337) / AAS / HISTORY 337: Black Women in the U.S.
   • WGS 341: Topics in LGBTQ Studies, section titled "Black Queer Histories"
   • WGS 343 (WOMENSTD 343): Special Topics in Gender and Ethnicity in the U.S.
   • WGS 345 (WOMENSTD 345): Special Topics in Gender in a Global Context
   • WGS 352 (WOMENSTD 352) / ASIAN 352: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Pre-modern China
   • WGS 354 (WOMENSTD 354) / AAS / RCHUMS / HONORS 354: Race and Identity in Music
   • WGS 356 (WOMENSTD 356) / AMCULT / HISTORY 356: Health in America: Patterns, Experiences, Inequalities
   • WGS 357 (WOMENSTD 357): Feminist Practices in a Global Context
   • WGS 360 (WOMENSTD 360) / AMCULT 342 / HISTORY 368: History of the Family in the U.S.
   • WGS 363 (WOMENSTD 363) / AMCULT / ASIANPAM 363: Asian Pacific American Women
   • WGS 365 (WOMENSTD 365) / AAS 365: Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction
   • WGS 366 (WOMENSTD 366) / AMCULT 366 / HISTORY 353: Sex and Sexuality in U.S. Popular Culture
   • WOMENSTD 368 / AMCULT 368 / MIDEAST 378 / ARABAM 363: Women and War in the Middle East
   • WGS 374 (WOMENSTD 374): Gender, Race and Incarceration (Only if elected SP19 or later)
   • WGS 370 (WOMENSTD 370) / HISTORY 370 / AMCULT 375: Queer Histories of the United States, 1850 to present (Only if elected FA18 or later)
   • WGS 376 (WOMENSTD 376) / JUDAIC 376: Women and the Bible (Only if elected WN19 or later)
   • WOMENSTD / AMCULT 378: Violence Against Women of Color
   • WGS 381 (WOMENSTD 381) / AAS 381 / ENGLISH 380: Intersections: Fictions and Feminisms of the African Diaspora
   • WOMENSTD / AAS 390: Homophobia in the Black World
   • AAS 392 / AMCULT 392 / WGS 392: Mental Health in U.S
   • WOMENSTD / HISTORY 397 / MIDEAST 387: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran (Only if elected WN19 or later)
   • WGS 408
   • WGS 417 (WOMENSTD 417): Race, Gender & Mental Health in the 19th Century (Only if elected FA18 or later)
   • WGS 425 (WOMENSTD 425) / AMCULT 425: Feminist Practice in Oral History
   • WGS 427 (WOMENSTD  427) / AAS / ANTHRCUL 427: African Women
   • WGS 431: Advanced Topics in LGBTQ Studies: section titled, "Feminist and Queer Sex Work"
   • WGS 432 (WOMENSTD 432): Advanced Topics in Gender and Health, section titled "Race, Gender and Mental Health in the 19th Century" (Only if elected FA16 or later) or "Women, Gender and Health in E Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" (only if elected WN20 or later)
   • WGS 433 (WOMENSTD 433): Advanced Topics in Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
   • WGS 434 (WOMENSTD 434): Advanced Topics in Gender, Culture & Representation, section titled "Race & Beauty in American Culture" (Only if elected WN17 or later)
   • WGS 434 (WOMENSTD 434): Advanced Topics in Gender, Culture & Representation, section titled "Skin Deep: Race and Beauty in American Culture" (Only if elected FA20 or later)
   • WGS 435 (WOMENSTD 435): Advanced Topics in Gender in a Global Context
   • WOMENSTD 438: Gender, Health, and Well-Being in Africa
   • WGS 443 (WOMENSTD 443) / AAS 443: Pedagogy of Empowerment: Activism in Race, Gender and Health
   • WOMENSTD / HISTORY 448: Gender and the Family in China
   • WGS 471 (WOMENSTD 471) / HISTORY 429 / MIDEAST 432 / RELIGION 496: Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Islam
   • WOMENSTD 492 / REEES / SOC 490: Women and Islam
   • WGS 496 (WOMENSTD 496) / MIDEAST / ISLAM 433: Gender and Representation in the Modern Middle East.
   Students may also include:
   • WGS 240 (WOMENSTD 240) or WGS 250 (WOMENSTD 250) (when not taken as a foundation course)
   
   
   other special topics WGS or WOMENSTD courses on specific racial and ethnic groups approved by the Women's and Gender Studies department.